Blair Leatherwood wrote:   
   > John W. Kennedy wrote:   
   >> On Jan 21, 10:03 pm, Blair Leatherwood    
   >> wrote:   
   >>> I'd not heard of Science Fiction Theater until you mentioned it (a bit   
   >>> before my viewing memory, and never available since as far as I can   
   >>> tell).  I looked it up on IMdB, and it looks like they were indeed   
   >>> trying to do something interesting--any ideas on the quality of it?   
   >>   
   >> I don't remember it very well -- it wasn't scheduled in a way that was   
   >> convenient for me to watch, and I was just a kid. But, as far as I   
   >> know, it was respectable. Fairly comparable to "The Outer Limits", in   
   >> fact, but much more justifiably a "Pioneer".   
   >>   
   >  From what I've been able to find out, it appears that it was    
   > syndication only, which would have limited its reach, and probably    
   > disqualifies it from "pioneer" status (beyond any influence it might    
   > have had on Serling, et al, since it predates TZ).  I do agree that the    
   > concept of the show and its apparent commitment to the genre would    
   > qualify it as a pioneer.   
   >    
   > I did find some clips (appearances by DeForest Kelley in several    
   > episodes), and they don't look bad from a production standpoint.  I    
   > haven't been able to find any writer credits, though, so I don't know if    
   > they took the step that Serling and Roddenberry did to bring some    
   > authentic genre writers into the production.   
   >    
      
   Okay, I did find the writers (on IMdB).  No one I recognized, but that    
   certainly isn't a definitive answer!   
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